Bill Text: NY A08725 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for restricted clinical laboratory licenses for immunohematology and microbiology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-09 - print number 8725a [A08725 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08725-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8725--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
          er Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to restricted clinical
          laboratory licenses

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  1 of section 8610 of the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 227 of the laws of 2019, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The department may issue a restricted license  pursuant  to  which
     5  the  restricted  licensee  may  receive a certificate to perform certain
     6  examinations and procedures within the definition of clinical laboratory
     7  technology set forth in subdivision one of  section  eighty-six  hundred
     8  one  of  this  article,  provided  that  such  a restricted licensee may
     9  perform examinations and procedures only in those of the following areas
    10  which are specifically listed in his or her certificate:   histocompati-
    11  bility,  cytogenetics,  stem cell process, flow cytometry/cellular immu-
    12  nology and molecular diagnosis to the extent such molecular diagnosis is
    13  included in genetic  testing-molecular  and  molecular  oncology,  [and]
    14  toxicology [(under paragraph (b-1) of this subdivision)], immunohematol-
    15  ogy, and microbiology.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it  shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    18  education shall make  regulations  and  take  other  actions  reasonably
    19  necessary to implement this act on that date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13918-02-0